VISION
To increase the richness, rigor, and results of NLP descriptions, practices, and participants though the careful consideration and inclusion of additional coherent models and epistemologies.
IDENTITY
We are co-creating participants in this endeavor.
MISSION
To re-source NLP as an open system -- in description, discipline, and community; complex, congruent (confluent), alive and aligned.
EMBODIED VALUES
We believe the Tao that can be spoken of is not the true Tao.
We believe everything is (already) systemic.
We believe distinctions make difference.
We believe in an embodied spirit of inquiry.
BELIEFS
We believe that the epistemological congruence of our models and our actions is essential to our own evolution; as participants, practitioners, and as a field.
We believe NLP is not one thing. Rather, it is composed of several existing and developing (diverse) disciplines, most of which are complete and coherent models in themselves. These models combine in NLP in by the alignment of these disciplines' epistemologies.
We believe a rich confluence with these and other disciplines; in the form of deep understanding of their ideas, academic acknowledgement, and personal relationships is essential to our greater (academic) acceptance and evolution.
We believe NLP is not an answer. Rather, it is a way to more beautiful and interesting questions.
We believe in the importance of considerations beyond utility, productivity and speed, especially beauty, mystery and integrity.
We believe the richness and diversity of the world will always be greater than any particular model or models. (The map is not the territory. And the territory is greater.)
We believe that we are the "products" of our process(es) and they are isomorphic.
CAPACITIES
(What are the skills of an Epistemologist?)
We will hold ourselves to our vision and ask questions, have experiences, and communicate with integrity. We enjoy flirting with the unknown, appreciating the importance of emergence and engaging chaos and embracing ambiguity.
BEHAVIORS
Our plan is to continue to "meet" by email, and create "attractors" (possibly websites) around particular topics, models, and epistemologies. This may grow into clearinghouses for developments outside NLP with possible future in person meetings and conferences.
ENVIRONMENT
Our environment is ourselves, our Modeling & Epistemology Too colleagues, and our worlds.
GOAL
To recreate NLP as an open system in order increase the richness, rigor, and results of ourselves and NLP descriptions, practices, and participants.
PURPOSE
Personal evolution and personal congruence. Field evolution and congruence.
Otherwise NLP could become a footnote.
BENEFITS
Personal evolution and personal congruence. Field evolution and congruence.
Create more dialogue and recognition with acknowledged fields.
More thoroughness, and aesthetics.
A larger attractor.
EVIDENCE
Questions for the Full Conference
We came together as an improvisational group and created beautiful music (some of the time - not all of the time). When we went to transcribe it, we found the currently available notation inadequate to describe what happened. We thought the way to communicate what happened to us was to 'give' you a similar experience. Lacking the time to do that, all we're capable of doing at this point is giving you the finger (pointing at the moon metaphor).
How can we re-source NLP as an open system?
How could beautiful be more useful than useful?
How is your process of teaching and consulting your most important product?
How can we explore detail as a way of chunking up instead of chunking down?
How do you teach something that's really something else?
How can we ask questions that stick as questions?
If the map is not the territory and the territory is not your map, where are you?
How are you an expression of your questions?
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